“You go from being a student to losing your entire identity and becoming a refugee. It was difficult for me. I didn’t access any of the community support in Poland because it took me a minute to realise I am a refugee. It made absolutely no sense. You are dehumanised. You are made to feel like a burden on a system that you didn’t ask to be a part of. You are told things like ‘why don’t you go back to your country’ or ‘ why are you here?’. There is a criminalisation of who you are and a lot of things that you didn’t have to contend with before. While I was a aware of the plight of refugees before and I believe I was sympathetic to it, I don’t think I had completely understood it until I became one.” - Asya on IW*S RADIO #16

“At midnight, that’s when the Black people were allowed to pass. That was where the discrimination started. At the Poland border.” - Beatrice on IW*S RADIO #16

“They don’t want you to get this help. Immediately, they see that you are a foreigner and when you enter they start crushing you, so that you can stop doing whatever you are doing and you can go back to your country. They have the information but they don’t want you to get it” - Janet on IW*S RADIO #16